<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 27.04.2009, at 19:59, Caroline Meeks wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Do the sticks that are giving the /dev/root error fail on PCs also?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Don't know. I do not have a PC to try.</div><br><blockquote type="cite">I have sometimes seen this error on PCs too. I have no idea what the root cause is.  <br><br>Other things to try.<br>Does it fail the same way if the stick is made on windows with the GUI?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Don't know. I don't have Windows either.</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Does it fail the same way if the stick is less then 2GB and you format FAT not FAT32?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Don't know.</div><div><br></div><div>But: I just re-did the stick after renaming it FEDORA. If someone knows how to rename it in Linux, please add that to <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux</a> (I did it in Mac OS).</div><div><br></div><div>And it now boots into Sugar!</div><div><br></div><div>I can see the start screen where I usually have to enter my name. The graphics are garbled though, presumably a problem with the X server. I can still move the mouse pointer but otherwise it's frozen, no keyboard input (not even ctrl-alt-f2) and no reaction to clicks:</div><div><br></div><div><img height="480" width="644" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:C77FC9C3-25F2-4F55-A13A-164C7B12A01C@lan"></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe Fedora does not like Mac mini hardware?</div><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">- Bert -</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font><blockquote type="cite">Thanks<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=""><div><div>On 23.04.2009, at 08:39, Caryl Bigenho wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hello Again,</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Still trying to get the SoaS going on the MacBook.  This time I went back to trying the Stick and helper CD.  I booted to the CD first, then inserted the usb stick. It went through the loading of Fedora all right (like before), then when I chose "boot" from the menu, it went into a terminal mode and gave me this message:</div> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WARNING: Cannot fine root file system!</div> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot sequence</div> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">bash: no job control in this shell</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> bash-4.o#</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I think if I knew a little Python I could solve this.  It seems to want me to tell it to go boot the SoaS from the USB stick, but I don't know how to do it.   Can someone tell me how and what to do to go on from here? How do I "exit this shell"?  How do I "Create symlink/dev/root"? </div> </div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>I tried this today.</div><div><br></div><div>On my MacBook Pro the CD did not boot. It's detected as a blank, even though I burned it on the very same machine.</div><div><br></div> <div>On a MacMini the same CD booted fine. It loaded the kernel and initrd from USB, then I got the exact same error message Caryl got.</div><div><br></div><div>I made the Stick in Fedora 10 using these instructions:</div> <div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux</a></div><div><br></div><div>These instructions did not mention renaming the stick. Is it perhaps still needed? I remember having seen someone mention the stick had to have a specific name.</div> <div><br></div><div>How does it try to find the root file system?</div><br><font color="#888888"><div> <span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style=""> <div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">- Bert -</span></div><br></div></span> </div><br></font></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br><a href="mailto:Caroline@SolutionGrove.com">Caroline@SolutionGrove.com</a><br> <br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br></blockquote></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><br></body></html>